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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only if you have a kid who is willing to choose friends based on what they will do for him in the future. Yuck.[/quote] That may be how you network, but that's certainly not the way I or most people I know from school do it. Back in college and grad school, I made friends who seemed like genuine, kind people regardless of their future prospects or any quid pro quo. The fact that many of them ended up being successful (and valuable to my network) was an indirect benefit. The point is that, at these so-called elite institutions, you end up with a great network whether you're angling for it or not. And most people that I knew were not. As for the point that you can end up with these same networks in grad school or professionally, of course that's true. But they're developed years later and often not nearly as strong as those formed in one's teens or early 20s.[/quote]
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